As you know HUI is the 'gold bugs index' of mining companies.
As a sector the miners have been hammered.
This is quite a divergence.
The Gold/Silver Ratio is also at rather high levels.
Every empire in its official discourse has said it is not like the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest 'mission civilisatrice.' Edward W. Said